Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, it's not interference. It's the provision of services to different regions across the Northwest Territories, by the eye team that is operated by Stanton Yellowknife Hospital. As you know, Mr. Speaker, there are a number of technicians there who make visits out to communities, that make visits out to regions and actually test the eyes, and refract the eyes, of patients. Once they've refracted those eyes and the prescription is written, then the person takes that prescription to a contractor who usually accompanies the eye specialist as they are moving around the Northwest Territories. So in order to provide that service and encourage those people to go to those communities, we do it by way of contract. Now, Mr.

Speaker, I must admit that Yellowknife is a little different matter because people are able to go to several outlets in the city to get prescription glasses made. There's a bit of an anomaly where the service is provided in Yellowknife and it's readily available, but in other communities it's not available and teams have to travel to those particular communities.

The last time that we let the contracts, Mr. Speaker, we called for the provision of services in a particular region of the Northwest Territories. We also said in that call for proposals or contracts, that that service must be delivered also in Yellowknife. When we eventually let the contracts, we did say that if there were eligible people in Yellowknife who walked into a particular facility, the contractor -- where they had facilities in this particular city -- would have to provide the same kinds of services. Yellowknife is a little bit of a grey area at the present time, Mr. Speaker, and that's what I intend to try and resolve when we let the next round of contracts.

In effect, Yellowknife may be a community whereby it's open to private sector and yet we still let contracts out to ensure that those eye specialists go to other regions and other communities in the Northwest Territories. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.